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Green Subsidies, Freight Trains, Gas Tax and More

A special edition of the MichiganVotes Roll Call Report

… designed to combat high temperatures, flooding, or power outages caused by climate change;” and more, in addition to activities like “monthly training and professional … designed to combat high temperatures, flooding, or power outages caused by climate change;” and more, in addition to activities like “monthly training and professional …

Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals

Our ability to detect tiny amounts is improving

… in these issues in recent decades, however, has taken a back seat to climate change. But with the growing attention paid to so-called “forever chemicals,” … these reasons, policy decisions deserve wide-open debate. For many, climate change is a higher priority — either because of its forecasted impacts or …

Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals

… in these issues in recent decades, however, has taken a back seat to climate change. But with the growing attention paid to so-called “forever chemicals,” … these reasons, policy decisions deserve wide-open debate. For many, climate change is a higher priority — either because of its forecasted impacts or …

Michigan will miss goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, climatologist says

State consumes too much power to rely solely on renewable energy

… 100% of its energy come from renewable sources by 2040. DTE Energy serves 2.3 million customers with electricity in southeastern Michigan. “Climate change is one of the defining issues of our era,” DTE said on its website. “That’s why DTE Electric is taking bold steps to significantly increase our …

By the Numbers

Beyond propaganda and rhetoric, numbers tell the real story

… coal-fired capacity by 2030 to keep up with current levels of growth. For more information go to http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/ill-wind-puts-climate-change-on-top-of-agenda/ 2007/03/09/1173166991682.html# and http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/coal.html.

If You Can't Tax Coal, Kill It With Regulation

… expensive to use that other forms of alternative energy could compete economically. The preferred strategy to eliminate coal is the Waxman-Markey Climate Change legislation, which is more commonly referred to as Cap and Trade or, increasingly, Cap and Tax. A recent study by the Heritage Foundation estimates …

Family Discovers 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Bones in Backyard

May help reveal background for the mastodon’s extinction

… health of the animal, since a large debate surrounds how mastodons actually became extinct. Some scientists believe they died out as a result of climate changes and subsequent food scarcity, which would be revealed in the fossilized remains of the mastodons. For the most part, however, this has not been …

Gov. Granholm Gambling on Michigan's Economic Future With Energy Subsidies

… Among scandals which are calling into question the scientific validity of anthropogenic global warming, the meltdown of the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change and frigid temperatures and record snowfall gripping much of the nation, it appears federal legislation that forces more expensive alternative …

Climategate's Effect on Students

… means for students of science and for academic research in general. For these purposes, it's not really all that important who's right about climate change. We might not ever really know who's right. The debate is much more nuanced than one side being right and the other wrong. There's clearly evidence …

Climategate Shatters Scientific Process

… journals, thanks to efforts by the same conspirators. These elites were the gatekeepers of input to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports - which is considered the authoritative source on global warming. Independent double-checking was thwarted. As a result, this warped …

Classroom Gore: Global Warming Goes to School

… 2007 than "An Inconvenient Truth" had nine significant errors in it and was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change, according to the London Times. The judge called it "a political film" when ruling on whether or not it could be shown to children in secondary …

How Federal Money Doesn't Translate Into Jobs

… 6,000 to 8,000 lakes in 17 states over five years. In the process of finding out why some lakes are more sensitive than others to land-use and climate changes, the project will employ 17 people each year, most of them graduate and post-graduate assistants in fresh water ecology. Some of them will attend …

'Best Article on Wind Farms You Will Ever Read'

… conventional parties across Europe, deny the most obvious of truths? To play lethal games with our energy systems in order to honour the whimsical god of climate change is as intelligent and scientific as the Aztec sacrifice of their young. Actually, it is far more frivolous, because at least the Aztecs knew how …

'Deep Freeze' Adding Inches of Ice to Great Lakes Levels

Experts unsure if water levels will remain high

… Army Corps of Engineers started keeping track in 1918. That attracted attention, including claims that the low levels were caused by man-made climate change. However, by February the level was higher than it was back in the 1960s and remained higher than in previous low periods throughout the rest …

Democratic Senators Seek to Silence Debate About Global Warming

'It's a good thing we have a Constitution which protects free speech'

… this year, a group of attorneys general from 17 states formed “AGs United For Clean Power.” The attorneys general have stated they will pursue climate change policies via litigation against free-market think tanks.

Despite Mideast Tensions, Michigan Gas Prices Remain Cheap

Before America’s domestic fracking revolution, oil tankers on fire would have burned motorists

… presidency in 2020 has introduced or endorsed a plan, such as the Green New Deal, that seeks to phase out crude oil production in the name of fighting climate change. Joe Biden was the latest candidate to release a climate plan that promotes other sources of energy like nuclear.

Mackinac in the Media

… published in The Hill, “the former vice president and California senator have both committed themselves to heavily restrict fracking as they focus on climate change and renewable energy. If enacted, the Biden-Harris plan would reduce energy choices, increase prices and drive Americans back to international …

Park Board Member Denied New Term After Supporting Diversity, Equity Spending

… another speaker, Elizabeth Perry, an assistant professor in the Michigan State University College of Agriculture, as someone who would discuss climate change and its “equity considerations.” Williams did not respond to a request for comment.

Wind Energy Developer Compares Opponents To Hitler And The Holocaust

… an employee of Apex Clean Energy. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., opposes the agenda of many climate change activists. The Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition is a Michigan-based nonprofit led by Kevon Martis, a Lenawee County resident who has opposed many …

Whitmer affirms that nuclear energy is clean energy

In a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Whitmer describes Palisades nuclear plant as good business and good for the environment

… Secretary and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Whitmer argues the nuclear plant is not only good for business, but that it will “help fight climate change.” Whitmer is seeking federal funds through the Civil Nuclear Credit program. Whitmer’s letter quotes another letter from Granholm in May, which …